FactoryTalk
Services Platform
FactoryTalk Directory
FactoryTalk® Directory allows FactoryTalk-enabled products to create and organize applications, define and share definitions and define and manage services. FactoryTalk Directory provides a central lookup service for a FactoryTalk system so all definitions do not have to exist in a single physical project file. References or "pointers" are saved by FactoryTalk Directory and are used by FactoryTalk-enabled products and FactoryTalk services to locate definitions when they are needed. It allows clients to locate key configuration information such as system organization, server locations and policy information. FactoryTalk Directory provides a common address or phone book of factory resources that are shared among FactoryTalk-enabled applications in a distributed system.
Features
The FactoryTalk Directory provides the following features and enables you to administer applications from the FactoryTalk Administration Console:
- Local and Shared Network directories.
- Separates names from physical locations.
- Simplifies and manages system connections.
- Looks up and resolves names into connections.
- Manages security access for directory objects.
Benefits
FactoryTalk Directory encompasses a set of components and services that together provide a central integration point into a FactoryTalk-enabled system. FactoryTalk Directory allows enabled products and components to share a common address book, which can look up and provide role-based secured access to shared definitions or resources. These shared definitions include items such as data tags, alarms and events, graphic displays, and users and groups. FactoryTalk Directory is not a single, common database. Instead, it is a service that provides references to resources stored anywhere across a distributed system or on a set of products running on a single computing resource.